Recycle for Life

Juni 26, 2020

Recycle for Life

Introduction

Recycle for Life is a California Department of Toxic Substance Control Registered Universal

E-waste Handler. RFL is involved in the transportation of all e-waste to environmental protection

Agency certified Facilities. Recycle for Life started operations as a company in January of 2010.

It was created as a nationwide ink and toner cartridge recycling company. Recycle for life has

collected over 500,000 ink and toner cartridges in the first year of its existence. In march 2012,

Recycle for Life transitioned to the business of commercial e-waste logistics as an e-waste handler in Southern California.

Last year, Recycle for Life delivered over 1 million pounds of e-waste picked up from over 8,800

businesses since 2010 and have 3,450 active clients. Keith Harris, the founder of Recycle for Life

has been involved in the recycling and reuse of electronic accessories since 1996. Recycle for Life

wants to leverage on blockchain technology to create a system based on the blockchain network that will reward subscribers to their newsletter and to the Recycling Awareness Association.

These tokens will also be awarded to recycling plants, recycling processors, users with recycling

receipts and users who forward to at least 5 emails to others information regarding our e-waste

recycling services.

Mission

Our mission as RFL is securing a green and safe environment through the provision of e-waste

management services. We aim to create massive e-waste recycling awareness across the country

through a blockchain based token reward system.

Background and Problem

When China banned 24 kinds of solid waste in September 2018, countries such as the USA,

United Kingdom, Australia and Japan realized they had a huge problem. Until last year, China

accepted 70 percent of the World’s electronic waste. Electronic waste included the discarded

computers, cellphones and printers, televisions, microwaves, smoke alarms and other electronic

equipment and parts. After china stopped accepting this e-waste out of concern for its environment, Europe and North America began

What in e-waste?

Electronic devices are made of very complex mix of materials that include gold, silver, copper, platinum, palladium, lithium, cobalt and other metals. The U.S Environment Protection

Agency notes that one metric ton of circuit boards can contain 40 to 800 times the amount

of gold and 30 to 40 times the amount of copper mined from one metric ton of ore in the

United States. These precious metals can be reclaimed through a recycling process.

But on the other hand, electronic devices also comprise toxic metals such as lead, mercury,

cadmium and beryllium, polluting PVC, plastic and hazardous chemicals such as brominated flame retardants which can harm human health and the environment.

In 2016 alone, the estimated value of recoverable materials in global e-waste waste$64.6

billion, but only 20 percent was properly recycled to enable recovery of valuable materials.

Much of the rest is dumped in landfills where toxic chemicals can leach from this e-waste

and end up contaminating the water supply. As more consumers buy electronic equipment,

manufacturers are beginning to face shortages of the raw materials required to make their

products, thus reclaiming and reusing the materials from discarded products and waste, a

process known as urban mining which makes a lot of economic and environmental sense. A

recent study in China found that mining copper, aluminum and gold from ore costs 13 times

more than recovering metals through the urban mining of e-waste.

TOKEN SALE

Start Jun 22, 2020 (9:00AM GMT)

Number of tokens for sale 1,000,000,000 RFL (100%)